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| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Illinois Rideshare Drivers Rally for Unionization Bill | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/21/illinois-rideshare-drivers-rally-unionization-bill | SPRINGFIELD — Rideshare drivers rallied at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday to ask legislators to support their effort to unionize. [ The legislation ][188] , which had not been filed as of Wednesday afternoon, would grant rideshare drivers the right to unionize and to collectively bargain with transportation network companies … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Illinois to Withhold Nearly $500M in Spending, Citing Federal Uncertainty | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/22/illinois-withhold-nearly-500m-spending-citing-federal-uncertainty | SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker’s office plans to hold back nearly $500 million in spending for the current fiscal year as the state faces constant uncertainty over the economy and federal funding. The reserves make up less than 1% of the state’s budget and largely focus on cost savings such … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Immigration Officers Assert Sweeping Power to Enter Homes Without a Judge’s Warrant, Memo Says | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/21/immigration-officers-assert-sweeping-power-enter-homes-without-judge-s-warrant-memo-says | WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches. The memo … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | ComEd Files $15.3 Billion Grid Plan Proposal to Address Rising Energy Demand | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/23/comed-files-153-billion-grid-plan-proposal-address-rising-energy-demand | CHICAGO — Electric utility Commonwealth Edison has asked regulators to review a $15.3 billion, four-year grid plan that it says will help meet growing energy demand and protect infrastructure from severe weather events. The filing is part of the state’s grid planning process laid out in the [ Climate and … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Murder Solicitation or Neighborhood Gossip? Trial Underway in Case of Chicago Man Accused in Greg Bovino Murder-for-Hire Plot | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/21/murder-solicitation-or-neighborhood-gossip-trial-underway-case-chicago-man-accused-greg | When a Chicago man shared a Snapchat message with his brother and a friend, was he soliciting the murder of a high-ranking Border Patrol official or simply resharing neighborhood gossip he’d seen on social media? That’s at the heart of the case against Juan Espinoza Martinez, a Little Village man … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Illinois Saw No Fatal Expressway Shootings Last Year | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/23/illinois-saw-no-fatal-expressway-shootings-last-year | _by Rebecka Pieder and Medill Illinois News Bureau, Capitol News Illinois_ * * * SPRINGFIELD — For the first time in at least a decade, there were no fatal interstate highway shootings in Illinois last year, Illinois State Police announced. The number of these shootings dropped significantly for the fourth … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Chicago Park District Is Giving Residents a Say in How to Spend $500K | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/20/chicago-park-district-giving-residents-say-how-spend-500k | Chicagoans will have a say in how the city’s Park District spends a chunk of money on park improvements in 2026, district officials announced. The district has set aside $500,000 for a participatory budget program in which residents will have an opportunity to submit ideas and vote on the category … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Exhibit Explores the Influence of Mexican Railroad Workers in Chicago | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/22/exhibit-explores-influence-mexican-railroad-workers-chicago | Part of Chicago’s identity is rooted in its railroads, but an important part of that history has long gone untold. Now, an exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen explores how Mexican railroad workers helped shape the city’s infrastructure in the early 1900s. [ “Rieles y Raíces: … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Chicago-Area Live Music Recommendations for Jan. 21-27 | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/21/chicago-area-live-music-recommendations-jan-21-27 | _Each Wednesday, WTTW News producer Josh Terry presents must-see live music shows from indie rock to jazz, country, hip-hop and more._ [ Daily Chicagoan ][128] , the newsletter from WTTW News, sends these picks to your inbox each week along with more essential recommendations from our staff. [ Sign up … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Bally’s Chicago Casino Rang Up Just $15.8M in New Tax Revenue in 2025: Data | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/22/bally-s-chicago-casino-rang-just-158m-new-tax-revenue-2025-data | Bally’s temporary Chicago casino rang up just $15.28 million in new gaming tax revenue for the city in 2025, down slightly from 2024, Chicago financial officials told members of the Chicago City Council on Thursday. Approximately 1.3 million people visited the temporary casino at River North’s Medinah Temple in 2025, … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | ‘365 Days of Chaos’: Illinois Democrats Reflect on 1st Year of Trump’s 2nd Term | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/20/365-days-chaos-illinois-democrats-reflect-1st-year-trump-s-2nd-term | CHICAGO — One year into President Donald Trump’s second term in office, top Illinois Democrats said it’s been a year of broken promises, uncertainty and fear for the future. “Today marks 365 days of chaos, 365 days of attacks upon civil rights, on the rule of law and on the … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Chicago Public Schools, Many Suburban Districts Cancel Friday Classes With Dangerous Cold on the Way | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/22/chicago-public-schools-many-suburban-districts-cancel-friday-classes-dangerous-cold-way | With brutally cold temperatures on the way, Chicago Public Schools announced it will cancel classes for students across all grade levels Friday. CPS cited the “dangerously frigid temperatures” expected Friday in making its decision, saying the possible wind chills of 35 degrees below zero will make it unsafe for students … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Trump Cancels Tariff Threat Over Greenland, Says NATO Agreed to ‘Framework’ of Future Arctic Deal | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/21/trump-says-nato-should-allow-us-take-greenland-he-won-t-use-force | _**Video:** Joining “Chicago Tonight” are Tom Mockaitis, a DePaul University professor who specializes in military history and violent extremism; Richard Porter, an attorney, longtime Republican National Committee member and former White House advisor to President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle; Paul Poast, a political science professor at … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Homecoming in Kane County as Bison Are Returned to the Prairie and Their Indigenous Stewards | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/21/homecoming-kane-county-bison-return-prairie-and-their-indigenous-stewards | On a frigid day in December, Jessica Walks First braced herself against the minus-7-degree wind chill and stood knee-deep in snow at [ Burlington Prairie ][86] in the northwest corner of Kane County. Next to her, a livestock trailer was thrumming with the barely contained energy of half a dozen … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Chicago’s Museum Campus Institutions Closed Friday Due to Extreme Cold, Public Encouraged to ‘Stay Safe’ | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/23/chicago-s-museum-campus-institutions-closed-friday-due-extreme-cold-public-encouraged | With an [ extreme cold warning in effect ][83] and actual air temperatures below zero in Chicago on Friday morning, several of the city’s major cultural institutions have announced closures to the public. Adler Planetarium, the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium — all situated on Chicago’s lakefront Museum Campus — … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Chicago Man Acquitted of Murder-for-Hire Charge in Plot Allegedly Targeting Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/22/chicago-man-acquitted-murder-hire-charge-plot-allegedly-targeting-border-patrol-chief | A federal jury has acquitted a Chicago man accused of placing a bounty on the head of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino as he spearheaded the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement operations across the city and beyond last fall. A 12-person jury reached its verdict Thursday afternoon in the case … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | State Law Allows Chicago’s Police Misconduct Agency to Investigate Fatal Police Shootings, Judge Rules | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/22/state-law-allows-chicago-s-police-misconduct-agency-investigate-fatal-police-shootings | State law allows investigators with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to probe fatal police shootings, a Cook County judge ruled Thursday, rejecting a bid by the city’s largest police union to limit the power of the agency charged with probing the most serious allegations of officer misconduct. Cook County … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | State Agency to Probe Whether Owner of South Shore Apartment Complex Raided by Feds Tipped Off ICE | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/22/state-agency-probe-whether-owner-south-shore-apartment-complex-raided-feds-tipped-ice | State officials will probe whether the owner of a South Shore apartment building raided by federal agents in September in an extravaganza designed to go viral on social media tipped off immigration agents in an effort to force out Black and Latino residents, officials said. The Illinois Department of Human … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Illinois Surgeon Pleads Not Guilty to Killing His Ex-Wife and Her Husband in Ohio | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/23/illinois-surgeon-pleads-not-guilty-killing-his-ex-wife-and-her-husband-ohio | COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Illinois doctor indicted on murder charges in the December shooting deaths of his ex-wife and her dentist husband in their Columbus home pleaded not guilty to the killings in an Ohio courtroom on Friday. Michael David McKee, 39, appeared remotely on camera from jail for … |
| View Article | 12:01 a.m. | January 25, 2026 | WTTW | Illinois Medicaid Program Faces Looming Funding Crisis Due to Federal Changes | https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/20/illinois-medicaid-program-faces-looming-funding-crisis-due-federal-changes | SPRINGFIELD — A multibillion-dollar budget crisis will hit the state’s Medicaid program in the next few years unless state lawmakers and Gov. JB Pritzker act to prevent it, budget analysts both inside and outside state government warn. The crisis comes from changes in federal Medicaid policy that were enacted last … |